Howto: Remove Fortune messages in the Terminal
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Howto: Remove Fortune messages in the Terminal
- open a terminal
- type "gksu gedit /etc/bash.bashrc"
- in the end of the file, remove the line /usr/games/fortune
- save the file.
Clem
- type "gksu gedit /etc/bash.bashrc"
- in the end of the file, remove the line /usr/games/fortune
- save the file.
Clem
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Yeah... me too.Sanchopinky wrote:What kind of ruthless animal would want them gone?
I personally love 'em!
But we've had a sensitive few who'd felt offended... or simply annoyed. So it's better to provide a mean to remove them before someone blows a fuse (ugly, ugly, let me tell you)...
I don't have a solution, but I do admire the problem.
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Okay, so I am late to this party but when I saw the How To topic here I just couldn't believe my eyes and simply had to read this thread. I love those fortunes.
Here is another example of Linux and choice! Gotta love it.
Here is another example of Linux and choice! Gotta love it.
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Agreed, how can you go past gems like thiswierdo124 wrote:They're awesome!
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SonOfMoog, from one Christian to another, thanks for the tip about replacing fortunes with a Bible verse.
Don't get me wrong here, I love a good laugh, but I did run across a fortune once that offended me, and in fact, I went back to straight Ubuntu for a while because of it, that's how much it offended me. As a married man, it offended me greatly when one day I saw a message saying "you will be divorced within a year". That deeply offended me, because it took me 35 years to find the lady who is now my wife, and by golly, I intend to keep her as long as we both shall live.
Here while back, I ran across where one can stop the fortunes from appearing, and I have heard of the "Verse" program, but I had never put two and two together like you did, with replacing the fortunes with a Bible verse. I currently use Ubuntu 9.04, but when Mint 8 comes out in about a month or so, I plan to return to that, and that's one of the first things I'll be doing with my Mint installation when that time comes. Thanx for the tip!
Don't get me wrong here, I love a good laugh, but I did run across a fortune once that offended me, and in fact, I went back to straight Ubuntu for a while because of it, that's how much it offended me. As a married man, it offended me greatly when one day I saw a message saying "you will be divorced within a year". That deeply offended me, because it took me 35 years to find the lady who is now my wife, and by golly, I intend to keep her as long as we both shall live.
Here while back, I ran across where one can stop the fortunes from appearing, and I have heard of the "Verse" program, but I had never put two and two together like you did, with replacing the fortunes with a Bible verse. I currently use Ubuntu 9.04, but when Mint 8 comes out in about a month or so, I plan to return to that, and that's one of the first things I'll be doing with my Mint installation when that time comes. Thanx for the tip!
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I got kind of surprised when, after installing Mint (I used to have Ubuntu) I discovered those animals in there in the terminal, but I do personally love 'em as well, also because Mark Twain is one of my favorite writers and also Shakespeare is, so.. mix it with some fortune telling quotations and.. I just love 'em!Sanchopinky wrote:What kind of ruthless animal would want them gone?
I personally love 'em!
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And they are not really Mint specials as I think they are there in a normal bash - only waiting to be activated
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Cool! This means I'm gonna run them on my Ubuntu partition as wellHusse wrote:And they are not really Mint specials as I think they are there in a normal bash - only waiting to be activated
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Re: Howto: Remove Fortune messages in the Terminal
-o0o-clem wrote:- open a terminal
- type "gksu gedit /etc/bash.bashrc"
- in the end of the file, remove the line /usr/games/fortune
- save the file.
Clem
- excellent - the fortune messages were starting to give me the *****
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Could you please respect each others opinions?
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I don't find any disrespect in this topic - different opinions, yes - disrespect no ... but I may have overlooked something
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-o0o-
- im sorry, but im not being disrespecting of opinions here, just expression my own opinion that i found that the fortune s*** very annoying and took up unnecessary space and time to load up terminal time? btw alot of people have requested of removing the stupid fortune thing any ways?????????????
so whats so dis-respectful of my own opinion????
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Actually I wasn't saying this to you specificaliy. If I had I would PM you.
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Does it delete fortune database with all the quotes? Or after this command quotes are still in the system?mumbo719 wrote:While you have the terminal open remove the fortune program.
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sudo apt-get remove fortune
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Well crap. I did sudo apt-get remove fortune, and it messed up my themes (default ones included in Mint). Any ideas on how to fix this?